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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Medical Informatics for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 2,004 people earned their degree in medical informatics, making the major the 311th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 97 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Medical Informatics for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in medical informatics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great medical informatics programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the medical informatics program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Medical Informatics for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree vets studying medical informatics.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Medical Informatics for a Master’s. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized public school handed out 52 degrees to qualified masters’s medical informatics students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our southwest region master’s degree vets studying medical informatics list, UTHealth has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Medical Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Of the 5,608 students enrolled at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 2 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
[Read full report on veteran student life at UTHealth]](/colleges/the-university-of-texas-health-science-center-at-houston/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Medical Informatics for a Master’s. TTUHSC is a medium-sized public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 9 masters’s medical informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at TTUHSC, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Medical Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 219 of the 5,274 students enrolled at TTUHSC were GI Bill® students, of which 114 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,474. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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